Tag Archive: Americans

Today when I was driving home from work, I was thinking about September 12th from one year ago and what I was doing on that day. It was the day after I went to the Red Sox game on September 11th and it was another major day in every American’s life.

She may help John McCain to come close to the White House, but this country needs change and John McCain isn’t going to change at all. I know that one of them is running for President and the other for Vice President, but if McCain wins, we might see a woman President because McCain is currently 72 years old.

Tonight in Denver, CO, Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in front of 84,000 people. When I talked about Hillary being VP, I was actually just looking for the votes, but when her and Bill spoke to the Dems at the DNC, I am hoping that their convincing arguments will turn those equal numbers from recent weeks back onto Obama’s side show McCain and his “advisers” that America wants change and not more of the same.

Our idea of showing solidarity and support for our troops with dignity and respect starts this Friday — and continues each and every Friday until the troops all come home, sending a deafening message that ..

After some of his statements, some people were yawning and others you can hear people in the crowd scream “Jerry! Well that’s good, because their are people in this country who don’t have health care and can’t afford the prescriptions they need to stay healthy/alive.

While the enemy is still dangerous and more work remains, the American and Iraqi surges have achieved results few of us could have imagined just one year ago: When we met last year, many said containing the violence was impossible. We must do the difficult work today, so that years from now people will look back and say that this generation rose to the moment, prevailed in a tough fight, and left behind a more hopeful region and a safer America.

Just when I think the US government is finally going to do the right thing and recognize the Armenian genocide, George Bush and other politicians petitioned Nancy Pelosi not to vote on the resolution next month.

On the third day and final day of the battle, fighting resumed on Culp’s Hill, and cavalry raged to the east and south, but the main event was a dramatic infantry assault by 12,500 Confederates against the center of the Union line on Cemetery Ridge.